xLimbo

Never drop a player again.

Your main server crashes. Restarts. Goes down for an update. Without a fallback, every player on it gets kicked, and some of them don't come back.

With xLimbo, they don't get kicked. Your proxy sends them to xLimbo instead: a calm, empty world where they wait in creative with flight on, until your server is back and they hop over with /join, or automatically.

Read the docs · Network setup · Report a bug

Why server owners pick it

• It stays up when everything else is down. That's its whole job. Every feature is built so that a failure is logged and skipped, never taking the server down, and a bad config value falls back to its default.
• Light, however many players arrive. The world is a single glass floor and nothing else, a world border caps how far it can grow, and nothing is ever saved to disk.
• Nobody can break it. The floor can't be broken, players who fall are caught, and portals, liquids, fire, explosions, redstone, mobs and dropped items are all blocked. Turn off any protection you don't want.
• Quiet. No join, quit or death spam when your whole server lands here at once.
• It's a real Paper server, so your other plugins, permissions and proxy setup all still work.

What players see

• A welcome message telling them what happened, and a reminder in the action bar.
• An empty void with a glass floor, in creative with flight, so there's something to do while they wait.
• /join (or /server, /lobby) to go back the moment your server is up, or auto-join to send them back after a delay you choose.

Every message is yours to rewrite, with full MiniMessage colours and formatting.

Up and running

1. Run a small separate Paper server with xLimbo on it.

2. Add it to your proxy after your main server. With Velocity:

    [servers]
    main = "127.0.0.1:25566"
    limbo = "127.0.0.1:25567"
    try = ["main", "limbo"]
   

3. Set main-server in plugins/xLimbo/config.yml to your main server's name in the proxy.

4. Stop your main server with someone online, and watch them land in xLimbo instead of being kicked.

Velocity, BungeeCord, and keeping /join secure: docs.xenastudios.co/xlimbo

Requires Paper 1.18.2 or newer (or Purpur or Pufferfish), Java 21, and a proxy (Velocity or BungeeCord). Not for Folia.

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